gallagher
2010-09-10, 12:12 PM
if you have a dragon mount, and went the paladin/beastmaster/halfling planes outrider route with devoted tracker and dragon mount, it takes a while to get an actual dragon of at least medium size (you can get a dragonnel or a spiked felldrake, but what you want is a dragon goshdarnit) until paladin level 16. 12-15 you can get a gold wyrmling or a very young bronze or silver dragon. according to the monster manual entry, all three of these should be medium sized, but the table in the droconomicon says that these should all be small (pg 138 or 139).
so with the rules in the book that gives you, you cannot as a small halfling ride a small dragon. there is a way around this, and i want to know if it has been thought of before.
at wyrmling age, both a silver dragon and a gold dragon get alternate form. with alternate form, they can effectively polymorph into any humanoid or animal of medium size or smaller. that means it can turn into a medium animal capable of being a mount, like a riding dog or a warpony. it still gets all the bonuses from being an animal companion and mount, so it still is not going to be a hindrance, and can also polymorph into a human and use weapons, or use its dragon weapons if you arent using it as a mount (and thus can be small/not capable of being a mount as a humanoid)
what do you guys think?
so with the rules in the book that gives you, you cannot as a small halfling ride a small dragon. there is a way around this, and i want to know if it has been thought of before.
at wyrmling age, both a silver dragon and a gold dragon get alternate form. with alternate form, they can effectively polymorph into any humanoid or animal of medium size or smaller. that means it can turn into a medium animal capable of being a mount, like a riding dog or a warpony. it still gets all the bonuses from being an animal companion and mount, so it still is not going to be a hindrance, and can also polymorph into a human and use weapons, or use its dragon weapons if you arent using it as a mount (and thus can be small/not capable of being a mount as a humanoid)
what do you guys think?